Up to 20,000 people have fled a Syrian government offensive in rebel-held eastern Aleppo in the last 48 hours, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the Geneva-based ICRC, Krista Armstrong, told AFP that the 20,000 figure was an estimate and that the...

The Pentagon said Tuesday that intelligence errors resulted in a US-led coalition air strike in Syria in September that reportedly killed around 90 Syrian government forces. There were "errors in the development of intelligence, as well as missed opportunities for coalition members on duty...

The Syrian Army and its allies aim to seize all eastern Aleppo from rebels by the time U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, sticking by a Russian-backed timeline for the operation after big gains in recent days, a senior official in the military alliance fighting in...

With their stockpile of food dwindling rapidly and government forces tightening their stranglehold, the Khattab family dreads what could come next. A brutal government blockade of rebel-held eastern Aleppo has brought the city to the brink of starvation, while punishing airstrikes have turned...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime continued Tuesday its deadly aerial bombing on the battleground city of Aleppo, killing at least 25 civilians in Bab al-Nairab neighborhood, Civil Defense said, as the Assad regime and its allies try to build on major gains in the city in recent days. The strikes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The besieged neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs city on Tuesday has witnessed a careful calmness in the first day of the truce, activists said. Residents from inside the neighborhood told Zaman al-Wasl that life in besieged al-Waer is still semi-paralyzed as residents are still...

Syrian rebels were fighting pro-government militias on the southeastern edge of east Aleppo's opposition-held enclave on Tuesday, a rebel official said, as Damascus and its allies try to build on major gains in the city in recent days. A major assault by government forces backed by allied...

(Al Jazeera)- Syria's rebels lost all of the northern neighbourhoods of their stronghold in east Aleppo on Monday, as the army made significant advances in its offensive to recapture the entire city. The government gains have prompted an exodus of thousands of desperate civilians, some...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime militias and Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) monopolize the most important trinity in peoples’ lives; water, electricity and bread. This became a method to pressure the population and to lure them into joining these militias to militarize the society. The ones who...

Every morning, Syrian trucks roll up to a car park near a Turkish border crossing, ready to take a consignment of UN aid back inside the war-torn country. But so far the cargo cannot reach the area where it is needed most -- the besieged rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo where tens of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed and 15 more wounded by regime and sectarian militias bombing on al-Ghantou town in Homs province and by an ambush in al-Samalil village. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Homs countryside said 5 Syrian resistance...

The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a swathe of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold. Two rebel officials said the insurgents, facing fierce bombardment and ground...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A military source from inside regime forces confirmed that Russian warplanes are the ones targeted a Turkish forces convoy participating in Euphrates Shield operation against ISIS north of Syria on November 24 at the same date which Turkish forces downed Russian jet last...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Civil Defense in Aleppo announces Aleppo stricken city after fuel storage has completely run out and the volunteer rescuing group has lost all the vehicles and equipment needed to rescue civilians. The directorate in a recorded statement clarified that Aleppo is...

Syrian regime's Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced comments by Qatar that it will continue to back rebels against Bashar Assad as merely an attempt "to raise the morale of the terrorist groups" in the face of army advances. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani...

(Sky News)- A Syrian girl who has shared the horrors of living in Aleppo has revealed her home was destroyed and she narrowly escaped death as government forces battle to retake control of a district in the city. Seven-year-old Bana Alabed has been tweeting from the devastated city as...

Israel's air force targeted gunmen linked to ISIS in Syria overnight, the army said Monday, after they fired on an Israeli soldier in the occupied Golan Heights. "Overnight the (Israeli air force) targeted an abandoned UN building that has been used by the Islamic State as an operations...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Agencies)- Syrian regime forces have captured a key part of eastern Aleppo, splitting rebel-held territory. Both regime-run TV and the monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the district of Sakhour had fallen to the Syrian army. The regime army...

Four Daesh terrorists have been neutralized in northern Syria during the Operation Euphrates Shield, according to the Turkish military.  Turkish Armed Forces announced Monday that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) seized control of the Khaliliyah, Ajami, and Shabviran villages. ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohammed Rafae, commander of the military operations of pro-regime Liwa al-Quds militia, was killed in a sniper bullet on Sunday in the battleground city of Aleppo, activists said.   Rafae, known as al-Arrab or 'the Godfather' was killed in clashes between the...